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'Jumping the shark' is a term in the TV industry that describes when a show starts to go downhill. The term comes from this 1979 episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie...jumps a shark! The plot revolves around the cast heading west because Fonzie has been given a chance to take a Hollywood screen test. While in California, Fonzie develops a rivalry with a rich water skiing champion. The climax comes when the two challenge each other to jump a penned-up shark. The rich dude chickens out. Here's Fonzie's famous attempt. Tags:HappyDaysFonziejumpssharkAdded: 28th March 2009Views: 2496Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

Here's a Canadian commercial from 1971 advertising Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yes, it was still Kentucky Fried Chicken then (not the lamentable KFC acronym) and, yes, Canada used to be that overwhelmingly Caucasian back then. Tags:KentuckyFriedChickencommercialAdded: 16th October 2007Views: 3404Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm an animal lover, which also applies to my choice of cartoons. My two favorite little guys have always been Chip n Dale, two Chipmunks that just can't stay out of mischief. Here they are from 1951, in Chicken In The Rough.
Tags:chipndalechipmunkscartoonsAdded: 17th October 2007Views: 1591Rating:Posted By:Naomi

This is the final nine minutes of my favorite Don Knotts movie: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). Knotts plays Luther Heggs, a nervous typesetter employed at a small-town newspaper. As a publicity stunt for his paper, he is cajoled into spending a night in a vacant mansion, rumored to be haunted, where a murder-suicide occurred 20 years before. Heggs reports all sorts of odd and blood-curdling goings-on. But when he tries to verify them, he cannot and is seemingly disgraced. This movie used to freak me out as a kid. My eight-year-old nephew won't watch it. The organ music is too scary for him. Tags:DonKnottsGhostMrChickenAdded: 19th March 2009Views: 2267Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

just one more for today (tried to find just a clip of all the different characters saying NEWMAN, for Steve) . . there's u're challenge! Tags:JerryseinfeldKramerchickenroasterTVAdded: 15th November 2007Views: 1741Rating:Posted By:Teresa